Zhang Zhonghua took an early car to the Platinum Palace in Westminster, where Queen Elizabeth II lived and worked, and was also one of the venues for the celebration of staying in the British family and the royal welcome ceremony.

Zhang Zhonghua remembered that he had been to the Green Tile of the South Stick Country and the Presidential Palace of the New Country, but he didn't expect to come to the Platinum Palace in Duying again today, which was really an honor.

In 1837, after Queen Victoria ascended the throne, Platinum Palace became the official residence of the British king, and the queen's important state events were held in the Platinum Palace, and the heads of state who came to stay in the United Kingdom for state visits also stayed in the palace.

The Bucking Palace is also the place where the Queen summons the Prime Minister and Ministers, holds state ceremonies, receives and entertains foreign guests and other important events.

In the center of the square in front of the Platinum Palace stands a gilded statue of Queen Victoria, and on top of it stands the goddess of victory, the golden angel on the statue of Queen Victoria, which is also the royal family's hope to recreate the glory of the Victorian era.

The Platinum Palace is a four-storey square gray building with the royal coat of arms hanging from the main entrance, and soldiers of the Royal Guard wearing a tall black hat standing on either side.

The Platinum Palace has 775 rooms including the Royal Ceremony Hall, the Royal Concert Hall, the Royal Banquet Hall, and the Royal Gallery, among which there are many royal collections and a large imperial garden.

During the Second World War, the Platinum Palace was bombed by the German Air Force and the chapel was destroyed by a bomb attack, before it was rebuilt and renovated.

Zhang Zhonghua entered the Platinum Palace under the leadership of the staff, and the staff also introduced Zhang Zhonghua to the history of various things inside the palace.

On the west side of the palace is the main house, where Queen Victoria built the Royal Ballroom in 1850, with a giant crystal chandelier hanging directly above the hall.

The Blue Living Room is also the most elegant room in the Platinum Palace, with a command table made by Napoleon I in the center of the living room, which was also presented by Louis XVIII of France to King George IV of England.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at the living room and secretly complained, the interior is full of exquisite furniture and luxurious carpets, and there are also precious crystal chandeliers, and the top of the surrounding walls is painted with scenes of the War of the Roses in the 15th century.

Zhang Zhonghua remembered the news he had read on the Internet, and the most headache for the Queen was not a national event, but the increasingly huge palace maintenance costs.

There is a report that the royal family has been constantly looking to reduce spending, use assets to increase income, commercial leasing and so on, otherwise the British royal family is likely to not have enough money to repair the Platinum Palace in the next 10 years.

Zhang Zhonghua followed the staff to the royal art gallery, which displays more than 100 portraits of the emperors and queens of the British dynasties, each with a bust in front of it, creating a strong atmosphere of 18th and 19th century England, showing everyone the glory of the former empire on which the sun never sets.

The British Isles already had human activity in the 13th century BC, followed by the Roman period, the Middle Ages, the primitive accumulation of capital, the absolutist monarchy, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, the colonial expansion, the world wars, and the post-war period.

In 54 B.C., the Romans invaded the UK; At the end of the 8th century, Denmark invaded the British;

In the mid-11th century, the French invaded the British;

Between 1337 and 1453, the 116-year-long Hundred Years' War between England and France began, and after the world's longest war, Britain embarked on the road of centralization;

From the 15th century to the 16th century, the wool weaving industry became the national industry of Duying, and the enclosure movement made Duying embark on the road of primitive accumulation of capital;

In 1688, after the Glorious Revolution, a constitutional monarchy was established, which was also equivalent to a formal state.

From the 60s of the 18th century to the 30s of the 19th century, the British became the first country in the world to complete the industrial revolution, and its national strength grew rapidly;

The British colony expanded violently in the 19th century and reached its peak in the early 19th century, accounting for a quarter of the world's population and a quarter of the world's total land area.

In the 70s of the 19th century, the capitalist countries also began the second industrial revolution, and the British gradually lost their industrial monopoly position, and were gradually caught up and surpassed by Americana;

At the beginning of the 20th century, Germany became a rival to the British, leading to a world war.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at the history of the development of Duying, which is also the history of the development of Europe, and almost the second half of the history of human development, of course, the first half is the history of the four ancient civilizations.

Zhang Zhonghua then followed the staff to the Queen's Art Museum, which has art treasures collected by the royal family of the past dynasties, and Zhang Zhonghua also saw more than a dozen works by Leonardo da Vinci.

"Portrait of a Young Man", "Study: Horse", "Anatomy of the Shoulder", Zhang Zhonghua is completely unable to appreciate Western oil paintings, let alone Renaissance works.

Zhang Zhonghua then went to the music room of Platinum Palace, a round roof decorated with ivory and gold, where Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert are said to have held musical evenings.

Zhang Zhonghua looked at the interior layout, all kinds of precious mahogany furniture, ivory ornaments are countless, how many African elephants have been slaughtered by this Nima, there is no harm if there is no trade.

Then came to the throne room, which is also the throne of the coronation of the British king, which has the same meaning as the dragon chair. The throne in the middle is particularly domineering, and it was also used by the current Queen Elizabeth II for her coronation in 1953, and there are also the coronation throne of Queen Victoria and the coronation of George IV.

The throne of the queen and the princess is also resplendent and very domineering, and the gold used for these two tables and chairs is probably a ton, I don't know what the king's seat in Saudi Arabia looks like, it should be more awesome than this.

Zhang Zhonghua followed the staff to finish the room, and then came to the Imperial Garden, the flowers and plants planted should be very precious, and the flowers are full of flowers, and they are very beautiful.

The staff explained that some of them played the piano to the cow, and Zhang Zhonghua didn't know anything about it, no, Zhang Zhonghua knew the Dutch tulips and knew the story of the Dutch tulips.

The tulip bubble, the first recorded speculative activity in human history, was also the originator of the economic crisis, and thousands of speculators were cut leeks.

After a simple tour of the Platinum Palace, Zhang Zhonghua followed the staff to the canonization hall, and he came too early today.

Since Dai Lintoe told Zhang Zhonghua to canonize Sir CBE, Zhang Zhonghua also carefully understood the medal system and rank of Duying, as if CBE was not even a knight.

The most noble person in the royal family is the member of the royal family, and the highest power of the royal family must be the king or queen, followed by the prince or princess of the crown prince.

Below the members of the royal family, there are traditional hereditary nobles and lifelong nobles, and the title is not directly related to whether you are a member of the royal family.

The nobility has long ceased to be a new hereditary nobility, so those nobility are also known as traditional hereditary nobility, mainly dukes, marquises, earls, viscounts, and barons.

The duke, the first class of hereditary nobility, is usually awarded to a high-ranking commander who has pioneered territory and made outstanding military achievements, and is second only to the king or prince. Dukes are similar to the feudal princes in ancient China, they are all lords who sit on one side of the power, and have a certain territory and soldiers.

On formal occasions, the Duke wore a crimson velvet coat with four mink furs and a crown with a gold ring and eight red gold leaves.

The Marquis, a second-class hereditary nobility, was usually granted to the governor of a frontier colony. The marquis is similar to the feudal marquis in ancient China, and is a feudal official who guards the frontier and governs one place, and the number of marquis has always been the smallest.

On important occasions, the Marquis also wore a red velvet coat with three rows of semi-mink fur and a silver ring on his crown with four gold leaves and four silver balls.

An earl, a third-estate hereditary nobleman, is usually responsible for governing a county. The earl is similar to the ancient Chinese Fang Bo, who is the administrator of a large local province.

On major formal occasions, the Count wore a crimson velvet coat trimmed with white fur, a soft hat with three mink skins sewn to indicate his knighthood, and a crown with a gold-plated silver ring and eight silver balls on the upper rim.

The viscount was a fourth-estate hereditary nobleman, and the viscount was originally the earl's deputy, helping the earl in judicial matters. The viscount's hat has two rows of semi-mink fur, a silver ring on the crown, and 6 silver balls.

The baron is the last rank of the aristocratic class, most of the nobles in the world, and the nobles with the largest number. The baron's hat is set with two minks, and the crown is adorned with a pale silver ring decorated with 6 silver balls.

Traditionally, hereditary nobility is inherited by children, while the rank of lifetime nobility is equivalent to that of a baron, but this title cannot be inherited.

The King of England has the opportunity to canonize nobility twice a year, once on the monarch's birthday and once on New Year's Day. The purpose of the crown to crown a life nobleman is to recognize people who have made outstanding contributions, and secondly, to bring certain people into the House of Lords.

The Prime Minister can ask the king to crown people who have contributed to the country and prestige as nobles for life, which is also a way to repay political friends, personal friends, and party protectors.

The Order of the British Empire was created by King George V on June 4, 1917, in order to reward those who had made great contributions to the military and civilian, and to fill the gaps in the system of honours and awards at that time.

The Order of the British Empire was under the barons of the fifth rank of nobility, as well as the so-called titles of commoner nobility, which were awarded by those who did not belong to the aristocratic class, but were undoubtedly the best among the commoners.

The Order of the British Empire is a kind of knightly medal awarded by the British, and is divided into 5 levels: the Grand Cross of the Knighthood, the Commander of the Knighthood, the Officer Commander, and the Officer Commander.

Among the knightly orders, the Grand Cross and the Commander of the Order of the Order of the Knighthood, also known as the knighthood of the lower ranks, can be knighted.

That is to say, only those who have obtained the rank of Lower Rank Sir Knighthood or a citizen of the Commonwealth Kingdom can be considered a knighthood, and the title of "Sir / Dame" can be added to the Chinese name.

If a foreign citizen receives the rank of knight of the lower ranks, they can only be regarded as honorary and cannot be knighted.

Of course, there are many other decorations, such as the Order of the Bath only for senior officers and public officials, the Grand Cross of St. George for diplomats, and the Royal Victoria for those who serve the British royal family.

Compared with the Order of Bath and the Grand Cross of St. George's, the recipients of the Order of the British Empire are not only officials and meritorious heroes, on the contrary, the recipients come from a very wide range of classes, so they are also more popular.

The number of people who received the Order of Knighthood was still very large, and the governors of the British overseas, the merchants and administrative leaders who lived overseas, and so on.

Of course, there are also many natives who stay in the British overseas colonies, that is, those who have made outstanding contributions and have significant influence, and many people have been awarded knightly medals in order to win over various classes.

According to the investigation information of Fengyun Society, there are only more than 20 people in Xiangjiang who have won the knighthood medal, and many people have passed away.

Executive Council Member Kan Yuet-keung was awarded the CBE in 1967 and will receive the highest GBE title in the future. He Dong, the richest Chinese man since the opening of the port of Xiangjiang, was awarded the title of KBE in 1955; CBE titles include Zhou Junnian, Sun Liren, Zhou Xinian, and Li Mingze.

Zhang Zhonghua thought that it was good that he could win the CBE title, although he was not a real knight, but as long as he was awarded the lowest-level MBE title in Xiangjiang, he would also call each other knights.

In the future, Dai Lintoe, Li Chaoren, Shao Liushu, and the charter boat king will be called 'Sir He' when they see themselves, which is much more awesome than a Justice of the Peace, and when they go to the Hong Kong government for a meeting in the future, they can pretend to be forced to hang the title on their chests.

However, the title of commoner aristocracy is a bit off, and many of those traditional hereditary nobles are now poor jingling, and their parents have enjoyed glory for them.

In the past, the nobles who stayed in England were also rich on the powerful side, but now many descendants of the nobles have to sell their property, or sell and rent their ancestral castles.

The aristocracy stayed with the British royal family and was excluded from the House of Commons, the core of state power, and the nobles had to renounce their hereditary titles of nobility if they wanted to become members of the House of Commons or prime minister.

Zhang Zhonghua followed the staff to the canonized auditorium, and saw many noble members on the way, looking at them wearing various formal aristocratic costumes, as if they had walked into history.

The soldiers of the royal guard stood in various positions in the corridor with ancient swords, and many people in the palace were also nervously busy, and there were really a lot of service personnel in this platinum palace.

Zhang Zhonghua remembers that around 1992, a fire broke out at Windsor Castle in the Platinum Palace, and the Queen opened the Platinum Palace to the public in August-September every year in order to raise the huge expenses needed to restore the palace.

At ten o'clock in the morning, Zhang Zhonghua finally came to the canonized auditorium, at this time, there were already many people waiting in line outside the auditorium, thinking that he was about to have another noble title, Zhang Zhonghua felt quite interesting.